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Four arithmetic exericse books written by Rowland Richard of Esgirangell, Mallwyd and by his two sons, Evan Richards and Robert Richards, when they were at school at High Ercall, Shropshire.

Three exercise books, 1825-6, of Evan Evans (1809-88) of Pobty, Llanddeiniol, shoemaker, containing examples of arithmetical problems.

An account book, 1760-1763, of a brewer [? at Caernarfon] dealing mainly with Anglesey and Caernarvonshire customers; the volume was later used as an arithmetic and geometry exercise book, probably by Roberts.

A volume containing mounted cuttings of a paper by John Davies on 'Monmouthshire Worthies', read before the Newport Cymmrodorion Society. Inset are a few extracts from Trevecca letters, 1729-1744, and transcripts in the hand of J. A. Bradney of some of the Gunter papers described in NLW MS 11420E. The volume was originally (1902) used as a mathematics exericse book.

Arithmetic exercise book, 1813-1823, of Morgan Evans, Glynhenllan, ?Cilgerran, Pembrokeshire, containing numeration and mensuration tables, rules and examples.

Notebook of William Jones ('Gwilym Brynaman', 1867-1915), of Brynaman, co. Carmarthen, and Los Angeles, California, containing mathematical exercises, 1887 (pp. 1-36), and fair copies of poems, mostly in Welsh, composed by him, 1902-14, and including poems entered for competition at eisteddfodau in North America and Wales.

Notebook of John Nicholas (b. ca. 1829), son of Phillip Nicholas, Pantygwyddel, Llanfyrnach, co. Pembroke, containing arithmetic exercises, 1839-41.

Exercise book, 1884, of Elizabeth Herbert (b. ca. 1869), Pen-lan, Lledrod, co. Cardigan, later the wife of Peter Davies, Belle Vue Farm, Llanilar, co. Cardigan, written while she was a pupil at Lledrod Board School, containing exercises in arithmetic, English composition and grammar, geography, history, letter-writing, and music.

A volume compiled, 1811-1830, by Thomas Llewellyn of the parishes of Cardigan and Ferwig, Cardiganshire, chiefly containing arithmetical exercises but also miscellaneous notes and memoranda in English and Welsh, perhaps partly composed by him and partly derived from printed sources. These include a bidding letter for the marriage of Mary Owen and John Williams, both of the parish of St Dogmaels, Cardiganshire, 1816; draft documents relating to property in Cardigan and Ferwig; love letters and verse in English, including a number of Valentine rhymes; prognostications in Welsh and English on the weather and on lucky and unlucky days, together with astrological notes; two apparently unpublished ballads in Welsh, one of them, perhaps by Thomas Llewellyn, recounting a case of alleged slander by Sara Evans, a Methodist, against the Rev. John Herring (1789-1832), Baptist minister at Cardigan; and a transcript of the title-page of The [Supposititious] Works of Aristotle (Arbroath, 1801) (not recorded in the Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue).

A volume containing arithmetical exercises and examples, used by Edward Williams (born c. 1841), Rhoswidol, Penegoes, co. Montgomery, at Rhydyfelin Parochial School, 1858-9.

An arithmetical exercise book, with transcripts of 'cerddi' by Thomas Edwards ('Twm o'r Nant') and others, transcripts of 'bidding' letters, and miscellanea.

A volume, 1809-1810, written by Joseph Meredith of the town of Carmarthen containing mainly arithmetical exercises, verses, and other memoranda including an account of the collection of money made among the workers at the Tinworks, Carmarthen, on behalf of the widow of a deceased forgeman, together with a copy of her petition, 1809 (ff. 79v-80v); inserted in the volume are two printed accounts, State of the Sunday Schools, near the Parade, Carmarthen ..., 1809 and 1810, with lists of the subscribers (ff. 77-8v). On Carmarthen Tinworks, see Francis Green, 'Carmarthen Tinworks and its founder', Transactions of the Historical Society of West Wales, 5 (1915), pp. 245-70.

A volume containing arithmetical exercises, form letters and stories, compiled by John Lloyd (b. 1808) of Pant, parish of Llanegryn, co. Merioneth, 1824-1825, whilst a pupil at Mr Harling's Commercial School, Chester; family memoranda, including copy letters from John Lloyd's father, David Lloyd, have been added, [1820s]-1847 (ff. 344v-345, 378v-380).

Notebook, 1842-1853, of Thomas Williams, Felin-fach, Pumsaint, afterwards of Talley, co. Carmarthen, surveyor, and schoolmaster at Cwmdwr (Llanwrda), and Gwynfe, containing memoranda relating to rates, etc. in the parish of Talley; mathematical exercises; accounts, with names of pupils, relating to schools at ?Salem (Llandeilo) and Llan-crwys (inverted text ff. 72, 75 verso-6); and miscellaneous notes.

Letter-book of Thomas Bowen of Pen-bre, co. Carmarthen, superintendent of the Kidwelly and Llanelly Canal and Railway Co., comprising an inventory of the company's records, 1831 (ff. 1-4), copy and draft letters, 1838-1840 (ff. 5-136 verso), a humorous poem on the failures of an anonymous colliery proprietor (ff. 151-5) and an arithmetical problem in Welsh, English and Latin (ff. 155 verso-6).

Arithmetical exercises and problems, 1741-1742.

Mathematical notes and problems copied by John Owens, Rhippinllwyd, parish of Llandygwydd, co. Cardigan, 1836, including a plan of the solar system (f. 156) and calligraphic decoration.

A commonplace book [?of John Jones, Ioan Triphlyg] containing Welsh poems, mainly in free metre, prose extracts, arithmetical and astronomical exercises, etc.

A volume of exercises in commercial arithmetic and precedents of invoices compiled in 1826 by William Saunders Davies, a native of Brynhafod and afterwards shopkeeper of Felin-fach, co. Cardigan.

An arithmetic exercise ('accompt') book of Elin Edwards of Nerquis School, Flintshire, 1786. At the end of the volume is the design of a sampler by Elin Edwards, aged 19 [years], 1786.